Folge 2592

Sesamstrasse
Plot	Cook off (Repeat of 2302)
Air date	June 19, 2011
Season	39

Picture	Segment	Description
	Cold Opening	The boss tells Wolle that it's time to push the red button. He then notices the strange contraption that Wolle has made. Wolle tells him that it's his "fully automated red button pusher". He activates the machine with the yellow button, but the hand slaps Wolle in the back of the head so he hits the red button. (First: Folge 2581)
	Scene	Pferd introduces a very special guest: the professional chef Thorsten Topf. Thorsten tells Pferd that he will cook spaghetti with tomato sauce. Pferd thinks it sounds like a real feast and want to help out, so Thorsten puts a chef hat on Pferd. Thorsten then starts to prepare the spaghetti. Rumpel comes by and is told that Thorsten is going to make tomato sauce and spaghetti. Rumpel starts to argue with Thorsten, claiming that shoelaces in a sauce made from a shoe is a lot better. Rumpel then declares that Pferd has to judge which one of them is the best chef.
	Scene	Rumpel goes off to prepare his dish. Meanwhile, Pferd is impressed with the boiling salt water.
	Scene	Right after Thorsten has put the spaghetti in the boiling water, he and Pferd are covered in smoke coming from Rumpel's kitchen. The smoke turns out to be coming from the shoe he is preparing for his dish. As Pferd comes over to him, Rumpel starts to sing about his dish and Thorsten joins in singing about his dish.
	Scene	Pferd has returned to Thorsten, who is now making the sauce, and says how well things are going with Rumpel and that his dish is looking really good. Thorsten acts like he doesn't care. Pferd goes over to Rumpel again and tells him about how well everything is going with Thorsten and how delicious his dish is looking.
	Scene	Pferd tastes both dishes and is impressed with both of them, and while Rumpel and Thorsten argue about who is the best chef, Pferd eats the leftovers.
	Animation	A spider at a museum.
	Muppets	Ernie wants to talk about big and small, so naturally he recruits Bert to help. He suits him up with a hat too big for his head while Ernie wears one that's too small. Ernie picks up a tiny box and asks Bert to get the one off-screen which is so big that Bert has trouble carrying it. Finally, Bert wants to demonstrate small this time, so Ernie gives him a bite-sized cookie, only to walk away with an enormous cookie for himself.
	Muppets	Wolle is in the shower when the next segment should be cued. The boss calls him in o the control room. Wolle hurries in to push the red button and notices that he has dropped his towel, then hurries out again. (First: Folge 2582)
	Film	Two kids show what their father does for a living: he is a ranger. (First: Folge 2358)
	Muppets	Polly Darton sings about being "Proud and Happy."
	Animation	Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures: Bert and Ernie visit their friend Doug in Invisible Land, where nobody can be seen. They're having fun until they're asked to babysit Doug's little sister Zippy.
	Cartoon	A story with only "W" words. (First: Folge 2473)
	Muppets	Game Show: Happiness Begins at 40 Guy Smiley gets the Sad Family out of their rut by having them count to 40.
	Muppets	Wolle has disguised himself as a rocket, as he wants to take off, but the boss is not too sure about that. Rocket Wolle takes off, but the rocket breaks up as it hits the roof of the control room and Wolle lands on the controls. The boss asks if he is all right, to which Wolle replies that he is, but he thinks they might have an open skylight now. (First: Folge 2583)